Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Hebrews Chapter 1 is devoted to honoring and praising Christ as the divine Son of God. And not only because of His high position and His infinite power, but because of what and who He is: He IS agape, a new and different kind of love that the great unfallen universe had never before seen demonstrated.
The great rebel, Satan, had arisen with his new invention of sin; Satan challenged God for the right to rule the universe. One third of all the holy angels chose to renounce their holiness and join the Devil, Satan, in his rebellion against God (Rev. 12:7-9).
The Father entrusted to His Son Jesus the task of conquering this great rebellion. In order to win this gigantic battle, Jesus must humble Himself and become one of us, because this terrible thing called "sin" had taken up abode in human flesh. It was sin's last lair--and that was where the Son of God must come to meet the problem and conquer sin (those who want to insist that Jesus took only sinless human nature in His incarnation have not considered this necessity).
The battle Jesus fought was gigantic; He must become one of us and crush and defeat sin in our sinful human flesh. Has Jesus saved the world? The Father sent Him down here to do just that, and the Samaritans confessed that He is "the Savior of the world" (John 4:42). They were right; that's what He is.
But most of the world's humanity do not yet recognize Him, and may never do so. However, there is something wonderful yet to come: the light of that great "another angel" of Revelation 18:1-4 must lighten the earth with glory, when multitudes who now sit in darkness will awaken and "see a great light" (cf. Isa. 9:2). This will be New Covenant truth!
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: August 22, 2008.
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